Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruined by a stock deal in which Banker Dwight runs Manhattan-Seacoast up to 350 and then causes it to go rapidly down. Banker Dickson suffers from his wife's readiness to make him a cuckold. Banker Dwight has amorous difficulties of a very different sort. He makes love not to his wife but to his secretary (Veree Teasdale), then to his secretary's stenographer (Maureen O'Sullivan). The secretary comes to his rooms and shoots him dead, hurls herself out of the top floor of the Dwight Building...
Page Pygmalion (Carl Henkle, author; Alan Merrill, producer) is an abortive farce about a young sculptor who is in love with his model but wants to marry an heiress. The sculptor's cousin John from Oklahoma City (Robert Emmett Keane) has the bright idea of persuading the model to mount a pedestal and simulate the statue for which she posed. Having heard many things, the model astonishes a large gathering by coming down off her pedestal and announcing that the heiress is. the illegitimate daughter of a janitor. The sculptor gives up sculpting, marries the model, returns to Oklahoma...
...equally impossible not to feel. It is also said that every German has a misty metaphysical centre to his hard, square head. Very much of a German, very much such a story-teller is young Author Kurt Heuser, new to the U. S. Unlike some of his compatriots who love to send their sometimes undirigible imaginations nosing through the clouds, Heuser's story winds along close to the steaming African earth, seems to penetrate at times to an Africa of the mind...
...Jeronimo journeyed on into the interior "it seemed as though everything here was ambiguous, merely a substitute for something else, but only in the sense in which things are substitutes for their souls, events for their meaning. . . ." Berna, fey-wise daughter of a drunken planter, half fell in love with him, but he was looking for something else. At Riquem's plantation Jeronimo spent a tense evening: his host's white wife, who had run off into the bush with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited...
Paul was married to Björg, in whose shallows he could not long imagine himself out of his depth. He was fond of her, in a more and more managerial way, but he could not quite put out of his memory his first love, Lucy, whose brusque disappearance he had never understood. Like other fundamentally mis-married men, Paul had leanings towards saintliness. Out of business hours he read and thought much about the Roman Catholic Church. When he finally decided to join it Björg was unsympathetic; when she found he intended to bring up their children...